The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Scientists have conducted a study to see the consensus of agreement amongst other scientists and astrobiologists and a ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the "natural evolutionary outcome" for our planet and likely others, according ...

Why haven’t we met biological aliens? If civilizations advance enough, they may ditch their biological limitations and become ...

Space agencies and billionaires are still mostly focused on Mars. However, if life exists beyond the Earth but within the ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...